Kayle vs Thresh
How to Beat Thresh as Kayle
based on 4,243 Kayle vs Thresh matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kayle vs Thresh Matchup Summary
Best Kayle vs Thresh Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Thresh as Kayle
Tips for Playing as Kayle against Thresh
Kayle benefits greatly from Attack Damage and Ability Power, making hybrid items like Nashor's Tooth and Hextech Gunblade very effective on her.
Using Divine Judgment on a high-DPS ally can turn the tides of battle by giving your ally free reign to attack.
Kayle's attacks become incredibly powerful once she gains attack range from Divine Ascent. Play safe until then.
Advice to Win Against Thresh
Intentionally breaking a wall of The Box can allow a vulnerable ally to escape unscathed.
Thresh's Death Sentence has a long cast time. Watch for the cast to begin to take evasive actions.
Thresh relies on collecting souls for a portion of his defense and damage. Try punishing him when he moves to collect them.
Kayle vs Thresh Counter Stats
How to Counter Thresh with Kayle in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify some strategic Kayle vs. Thresh counter statistics that may help you figure out the distinctions between the two. As an example, Kayle’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Thresh’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kayle may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Thresh. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Kayle normally has a much larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Thresh. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kayle and Thresh
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Who is Better, Kayle or Thresh?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kayle usually wins when trying to fight Thresh, with a 52.2% win rate. Therefore, Kayle makes a good counter for Thresh.
While Kayle does have a higher win rate than Thresh, when facing one another, Kayle also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Kayle into Threshas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Kayle also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Thresh. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kayle vs Thresh matchups, Kayle is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Kayle is an above average counter for Thresh. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Kayle against Thresh.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kayle in order to counter Thresh during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kayle on average accumulates much more CS compared to Thresh. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Kayle versus Thresh build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Nashor's Tooth. When Kayle used at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better versus Thresh than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Kayle boasted an average winrate of 52.2% battling Thresh with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of defeating Thresh as Kayle, you should equip the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Kayle vs Thresh counter picks, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.2% win rate overall.
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